There is practice dunk session online with young Michael, he was throwing all sorts of dunks there, few from ft line, one in particular was amazing, if you pause at the right time his entire head is above the rim in the mid air. Also, Vince Carter was well over 38 inches, he was most likely 42-43 inches, plus long arms at 6'6 no wonder he was the best dunker. Highest official verical in and off the game in recent years was gerald green. Shanon Brown was also crazy while in Lakers.
here's a clip of Wilt Chamberlain jumping so high to block a shot his shoulders are level to rim.. though I admit this would still not be a 50 inch vert but is relatively close. ru-vid.comgCf17f6L3ns?si=Tq9D3Y7pIJjpQV3B
The North Carolina study measured his jump at just under 46 inches when he was 20, not 44. So its not completely impossible that his leap was 48 inches during his nba prime, its just unofficial. He consistently would net 42 inches in-game where his head met the basket height, so if we're taking a max vertical, straight up and down, its not entirely inaccurate.
It comes down to how you train your body. What kind of physical coordination and balance does your physical frame possess? The biggest difference between Wilt and other big men legends like Kareem, Shaq, Dwight, Yao Ming, and David Robinson is that Wilt never had that awkward phase of clumsiness that a 6'10, 14yr old would most likely have like those other centers did have who I just mentioned. Jabber couldn't bench press 600 lbs. The Admiral couldn't run the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds, and Shaq couldn't throw a football from end zone to end zone. Wilt did all of the things with ease.
It was Charles Barkley who beat Shaq i a bench press competition, not Wilt, but you are right that Wilt was the strongest in NBA history. Schwarzenegger, who had a verified bench of 500, said Wilt was much stronger than him. It is on a youtube vid, as is the Barkley Shaq contest.
Nope, nope and nope. Making a point with a picture from Space Jam, the runs there still come up as a rarity like the Dream Team practices. Magic and Thomas being friends was so rare they did articles and NBC segments between games often on the topic
god every American i see get mad over Lyles comment dosent even understand what hes saying because they are too busy being offended. Nobody is doubting currently that the Boston Celtics are the best basketball team in the world! they are just not world champions because they play in a “NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION”. USA won the international competition and are the world champions. When the best football team in the world wins the championships league they are crowned as EUROPEAN champions because they a EUROPEAN LEAGUE
Tell me you don’t know ball without saying you don’t know ball. The Bulls in the 80s and 90s had the slowest pace of all the teams. That 100.8 is avg team pace. Bulls were more like 90 pace or something back then. What’s more is that avg FTA is not a good metric, foul calls were mostly at the end of games in foul time because games were a lot closer back then, you didn’t have a lot of 20-30 pt blowouts. Games were often decided by low single digits. Illegal defense is a bad excuse, why? Because illegal defense does not mean you couldn’t double. It means you had to stay relatively close to your man which actually forced all players to play defense unlike today when offensive superstars stay midway to act as help defenders (and hence rest) so defense was better in that era for sure. Jordan faced plenty of double triple teams (read the Jordan rules and actually watch game tape). There was hand checking back then which meant the defender could control where the ball handler went. Furthermore, the biggest difference was the defensive 3 second rule which clogged the lanes and Jordan still shot ~70% at the rim. Also, Jordan was not a bad 3 point shooter. He was still above avg during his era (even on non shortened line). He took barely 1 a game but when he took upwards of 3, he avged 38%. Jordan never grew up with a 3 ball, if he did, he would easily shoot 40%+ with modern spacing given how he already did 38% on 3 attempts a game. The more you take, the better you make. Jordan would avg 45+ today easily.
Without sheed, they ain’t winning their first one over the pacers let alone against the spurs. Maybe they win against the heat but idk if they beat the mavs. Sheed was a big part of their semi dynasty. In 04, he was still better than melo offensively. While melo over takes him probably in the second year w that, defensively it is such a downgrade. You have to remember they are going against Duncan in 05. 04 Jermaine O’neal. Like Carmelo will not be able to defend them at all.
“According to some people” Given there is NO world championship for no nation based teams to compete - it should be everyone’s opinion that they are not the World Champions. BUT likely would be if such a competition exist.
A world championship require you to win an international worldwide tournament. End of. The nfl champs aren’t world champs. The World Series winners aren’t world champions. The champions league winners aren’t world champs. The ipl winners aren’t world champions.
Bro you can’t just guess… lmao “He could easily be 450 pounds here” the numbers are listed my guy. Like the nfl the nba weighs and records players. You can see the heaviest team weigh ins. Shaq was at 360 max and Oliver miller the fattest man to play during game time weighed in at 380.
